Soap-holder for shaving-cups.



APPLICATION FILED 3313.7, 1913'.

Patented Oct. '6, 1914.

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ornron DANIEL W'. VJ'AED'WELL, OF HOME, NEW YORK.

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Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 7, 1913. Serial No. 745,734.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. /VARD- WELL, of Rome, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soapllolders for ShavingCups; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My present invention relates to a shaving cup having means for holding the soap therein in an effective and sanitary manner.

It is well recognized by those familiar with the use of the soap-holding shaving cups that for sanitary reasons the soap, the cup and any device holding the soap in the cup should be thoroughly cleansed after each use thereof and also that such a cleansing is not efiective if the cup or the holding means be at all complicated. It is in fact well known that unless the holding device be capable of being thoroughly cleansed very readily and quickly the cleansing opera tion will be slighted or neglected entirely. Furthermore unless the soap be held above the bottom of the cup and away from the sides of the cup the soap absorbs too much water and becomes soft and may become sour and in any event is wasted on account of becoming too soft and having no opportunity to dry during intervening times.

Another desired feature in such a shaving cup is that the soap be restrained from rotating in the cup when the shaving brush is applied thereto with the ordinary rotating movement. Unless the soap be held stationary in the cup the lathering operation. is unduly delayed.

l-leretofore many of the means employed to hold the soap from rotation .iave prevented the ready removal of the soap from the cup and in many cases have failed to hold the soap above the bottom of the cup, thereby resulting in a combination which is unsanitary and lacking in some desirable features. Some of the means for holding the soap above the bottom of the cup do not prevent rotation of the soap and do not permit of the ready removal of the soap or complete cleansing of the parts. Many of the devices which allow removal of the soap from the cup do not hold the soap above the bottom of the cup or prevent rotation thereof and so fail in securing a satisfactory or sanitary shaving cup. In other words the various features of ready removal, thorough cleansing, support above the bottom of the cup and prevention of rotation While each being desirable and possibly separable have seemed inpractice to be inconsistent for the reason that ready removal and thorough cleansing can only be obtained with great simplicity of parts while support of the soap above the bottom of the cup and prevention of rotation of the soap can only be secured by some mechanical means. These mechanical means were of course not necessary when the soap was simply placed in the bottom of the ordinary shaving cup and held there by the gumm'ed soap or old lather.

It is the objectof'my invention to overcome the foregoing disadvantages and to provide a proper combination of desirable features without the presence of any of these disadvantages. To accomplish this I provide in combination a shaving cup which is only very slightly modified from the conventional shavin cup of the simplest and most sanitary form and soap-holding member which will efiectively hold the soap above the bottom of the cup and prevent rotation of the soap and yet permit of the ready removal of the soap and holder from the cup and the quick and thorough cleansing of the soap, soap-holder and the cup.

Figure l is a perpendicular sectional view through a shaving cup embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the lower part of a cup equipped with a modified form of holder. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar view on line ll of Fig. 1, but with the flange bent inwardly at several points.

Referring to the drawings in a more particular description, the cup 7 is of any usual or desired form preferably having its inner side walls 8 tapering slightly inwardly as they approach the bottom 9 which they preferably meet at a curve 10 instead of a corner or angle, in order to present a surface that may be easily kept clean. At a point in theinner side wall 8 beginningat the bottom thereof there is provided a re cess 11 having its bottom 12 in line with the adjacent bottom 9 and having its sides 13 slope oif gradually to the adjacent side wall 8 while the recess gradually decreases in Patented Oct. e, 1914.

depth as it leaves the bottom of the cup and slopes off to meet the level of the side wall part wry up the cup. It will thus be seen that the recess 11 presents no sharp edges or abrupt indentations and also preferably does not slant outwardly as it approaches the bottom of the cup but gets its greater depth there through not following the more docided inward slant of the side walls.

The removable soap holder consists of a platform l-sl having means such as an llltQ gral flange 15 adapted to hold the ordinary sized cake of shaving soap upon the platform. The platform is supported above the bottom of the cup and also spaced from the side walls of the cup by means of clownwardly and outwardly extending feet 16 of such length and so arranged that When their lower extremities rest against the curve 10 at the meeting place of the side walls 8 and bottom 0, the platform will be held at the proper distance above the bottom and also spaced from the side Walls. These feet 16 which are also preferably slightly resilient are so arranged that the additional pressure brought upon the platform when the brush is applied to the soap tends to bend them or spread them outwardly. The feet may be formed integral with the platform by stamping parts thereout as indicated in Figs. 1 and or they may be a separate part or parts as a pair of crossed strips secured to the platform 16 as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

in the form of my invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4, the feet 16 are of the same length, that is they extend radially the same distance beyond the edge of the platform while in the form illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 one foot is slightly longer than the other feet, that is it extends slightly farther beyond the edge of the platform than do the other feet. When the soap-holder is dropped into the cup, the soap-holder will rotate under the action of the brush until one of the feet comes opposite the recess 11 whereupon that foot under the pressure thereupon will spread out into the recess and its engagement therewith will prevent rotation of the holder. The spreading or entering of one foot into the recess will allow the platform to move from the center of the cup to a position slightly to one side thereof and toward said recess but not touching the side wallvof the cup at any place, as illustrated in Fig. 4. With holder having feet of equal length this position will be maintained from rotation with sutlicient positiveness to permit an effective and speedy lathering operation. Nith a holder having a long foot, while any of the other feet may temporarily hold the platform by their engagement with the recess causing the platform to assume the offset position 'of Fig. 4, yet the platform will soon rotate until the long foot engages the recess whereupon the platform will be secured from further rotation. When the long foot is not in the recess its greater length will keep the platform up too high for any of the shorter feet to securely engage the recess. lVhen said long foot enters the recess the platform is allowed to take a lower position and the long foot acts in an obvious manner as a key. When it is desired to clean the cup and its contents, the cup is tipped to one side or turned up side down, whereupon the soap and soap holder together readily fall out of the cup so that the cup may be thoroughly washed and the cake of soap and soap holder may be readily rinsed 01f. Usually the holder is at once returned to the cup but the holder will keep the soap above the bottom of the cup and away from the sides so that it will not absorb any water left in the cup or adher'ing to its walls and will be able to dry off before the next operation. It will thus be seen that by very slight modifications of the conventional cup and an improved soap holder, I have produced a holder that will effectively prevent rotation of the soap, hold the soap up from the bottom of the cup and away from the walls and allow ready removal of the holder and soap from the cup and yet permit easy, speedy and thorough cleansing of the whole outfit. if the cake of soap 18 does not fit tightly enough within the flange 15 of the platform, the flange may be bent inwardly at several points 17 as illustrated in Fig. l to hold the soap securely to the platform.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination a cup having a recess and a removable soap holder having a resilient member projecting therefrom and adapted to rotate with said soap holder in the cup and to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said soap holder.

2. In combination a cup having a recess and a removable soap holder having a resilient member extending therefrom adapted when pressure is applied to said holder, to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said holder.

3. In combination a soap holder having downwardly and outwardly extending feet and a cup having a recess adapted to be entered by one of said feet and thereby prevent rotation of said soap holder.

4t. In combination with a cup having a recess, a removable soap holder having downwardly and outwardly extending resilient feet whereby when pressure is applied to said holder one foot will enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said holder.

5. In combination with a cup having a re- 'cess, a soap holding platform and feet downwardly and outwardly extending from said platform beyond the edge thereof and adapted to hold said platform above the bottom of the cup and away from the walls thereof, one of said feet adapted to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said holder.

6. In combination with a cup having a reccss, a soap holding platform, feet downwardly and outwardly extending from said platform beyond the edge thereof and adapted to hold said platform above the bottom of the cup and away from the walls thereof, one of said feet being longer than the others and adapted to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said platform.

7 In combination with a cup havlng a recess, a removable soap holder having downwardly and outwardly extending feet of unequal length, the longest of said feet adapted to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said holder.

8. In combination with a cup having a recess, a removable soap holder having down wardly and outwardly extending resilient feet of unequal length, the longest of said feet adapted when pressure is applied to said holder to enter said recess when opposite thereto and prevent rotation of said holder.

In witness whereof I have affixed my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 3rd day of F eb., 1913.

DANIEL W. WARDWELL.

WVitnesses:

JOSEPH D. GRIFFIN, HARRIET WILLIAMS.

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Washington, D. 0. 

